Chris Lamb advises companies, market participants, founders, and executives on regulatory, market structure, and restructuring matters involving derivatives and commodities markets, digital assets, prediction markets, and emerging technologies. His practice focuses on CFTC regulation, exchange and clearinghouse oversight, capital formation, operational resilience, and financial restructuring, and he serves as outside general counsel to fintech, digital asset, and AI companies that need regulatory and transactional judgment without the cost of a full-time in-house team.

Chris most recently served as Senior Counsel to a Commissioner at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, where he advised on derivatives market structure, designated contract market (DCM), derivatives clearing organization (DCO) regulation, swaps execution facilities (SEF), and introducing broker (IB) rules and regulations, event contracts and prediction markets, operational resilience, continuous (24/7) trading markets, and issues relating to artificial intelligence and emerging technologies. He worked on rulemakings, registration and self-certification reviews, enforcement, and interpretive matters, and engaged regularly with both domestic and international exchanges, clearinghouses, intermediaries, and senior industry executives on market structure developments and regulatory policy affecting futures markets and related financial infrastructure.

Prior to his government service, Chris practiced in both the restructuring and the digital asset group of an Am Law 100 firm, where he represented debtors, creditors, and other stakeholders in complex chapter 11 cases, including matters involving digital asset platforms and other technology-driven businesses, and advised clients on regulatory classification, market structure, and capital formation issues affecting crypto, tokenization, and stablecoin offerings. Earlier, he served as a law clerk to the bankruptcy judge sitting in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana (2021–2022).

Chris's practice spans novel regulatory matters and complex operational and financial challenges facing companies in rapidly evolving markets, where he brings a working knowledge of the SEC/CFTC intersection to the day-to-day judgment calls that define early and growth-stage companies.

Chris earned his J.D. with honors from Emory University School of Law where he was a Managing Editor for the Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal and earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Central Florida.